Vanessa and Melanie Alenier, during a news conference on Jan. 21, 2014, announcing that six same-sex couples and Equality Florida Institute filed a lawsuit in Florida state court in Miami seeking the freedom to marry. The announcement was made at the LGBT Visitors center on Miami Beach.
WALTER MICHOTMIAMI HERALD File

Insurance company Aetna has just unveiled a new video featuring Melanie Alenier, who with partner Vanessa successfully sued for the right to marry in Florida.

“They did an amazing job,” Melanie Alenier said of Aetna. “They reached out to us and told about the project. They just embraced same-sex couples. They wanted to spread the word that Aetna had the doors open to same-sex couples.”

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Check out Melanie and Stephen, real people sharing a real story about what’s important in their lives.

The Aleniers, together nine years this week, married Jan. 9, 2015, four days after Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel lifted a stay in the Ruvin case and legalized same-sex marriage in the county. The following day, gay marriage became legal throughout Florida after U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle’s stay in a similar federal case expired.

The Aleniers’ son Ethan, 6, and Melanie’s mom were present when the women wed in Broward Circuit Judge Lisa Porter’s closed courtroom. “It was very private, very small,” Melanie Alenier said of their wedding. “Everything else has been so public.”

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